We show that loan origination time is crucial for bank lending standards over the credit cycle, as well as for ex-post loan-level defaults and bank-level failures. We use the credit register in Spain for the business loans over the 2002-15 period focusing on the time of a loan application and...

En este trabajo mostramos que los estándares de concesión de préstamos por parte de los bancos se ven afectados por las condiciones macroeconómicas. Utilizamos datos mensuales entre 2002 y 2015 de la Central de Información de Riesgos del Banco de España (CIRBE), que nos permiten monitorear...

We show that bank shocks originating in the fi nancial sector propagate upstream and downstream along the production network and triple the impact of direct bank shocks. Our identi fication relies on the universe of both supplier-customer transactions and bank loans in Spain, a standard...